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rionaleonhart) wrote2019-08-23 09:37 am
rionaleonhart) wrote2019-08-23 09:37 am
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Keep Walking.
I look forward so much to new Life Is Strange 2 episodes, and then when they arrive I always find myself going 'WAIT NO I'M NOT READY FOR THIS.'
I've reached the church in episode four, but I haven't yet gone inside. Here are my notes so far!
Going crazy in here. Woke up crying. omg Sean
Claire and Stephen sent me a nice letter. So lonely I read it twice. omg SEAN
Two minutes into the new Life Is Strange 2 episode, and it's already fulfilling all my tortured teenager needs. Sean's in hospital, in police custody, separated from Daniel and having lost an eye, writing about how fucked-up and lonely he is.
He's heard from Chris and Cassidy and his grandparents, but not from Lyla? I imagine Lyla's storming down the country to kick in the door of his hospital room and yell 'YOU ASSHOLE'.
He made a note on Daniel's birthday, noooooo
And of course 'Did you find Daniel?' is the first thing he says when the agent comes in.
Joey: I can see that you're a good person.
Options: 'thank you'/'I'm not'
yesssss, the ability to make the protagonist intensely self-loathing is exactly what I want from every game.
His voice when he realises he knows where Daniel is! So broken, so hopeful! 'I can see him again!'
Sacred Hope Hospital is close enough to Sacred Heart Hospital to immediately make me think of Scrubs crossovers.
This 'escape the hospital' sequence is already way too stressful.
OH MY GOD, I HATE THIS DECISION, I DON'T WANT TO HIT JOEY AND IT'LL GET SEAN IN EVEN MORE TROUBLE, BUT JOEY WILL GET IN TROUBLE IF HE HELPS ME AND IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE I ESCAPED ON MY OWN
I chose to hit him. I don't feel great about that. I'm glad he's a nurse and could tell me where to hit him in order to, you know, not kill him.
That was a really nice scene between Sean and Finn! I wasn't expecting to get to interact with Finn in this episode at all! I felt pretty bad for telling the agent that Finn was behind the attempted heist, and I thought maybe if I woke him he'd alert security to get back at me for that, but instead he was very apologetic about the whole affair and I had the chance to tell him I didn't blame him.
There's at least a 120% chance that the car Sean stole to escape is going to turn out to be Joey's and I'm going to feel even worse.
I know that desert! We drove from California into Nevada when I was nineteen. Maybe it's not the same long straight California-to-Nevada desert road, but it feels the same. The sky was purple, there were mountains in the distance, and the most incredible rainstorm broke out, flooding the desert as we crossed. It's one of the moments from that holiday that most stuck with me.
Oh, hey, turns out the car actually isn't Joey's! Sean still feels bad for the owner, though.
I usually make decisions based on what I think will be best for my boys (or... my boy, now), but when the racist arsehole took Daniel's Etch-a-Sketch I lunged for it. I'm invested in Sean and Daniel's relationship, so of course I wanted him to react emotionally in that moment.
In fact, I generally seem to be roleplaying rather than aiming for the 'best' decision now. I thought the truck driver was probably safe, and it seemed like a terrible idea to keep walking through the desert, but Sean's been through so much, he's so wary and wounded, and it seemed to me like he'd probably turn the ride down, so I did. (If I'd been playing a female character, there is not the faintest chance I'd ever have considered taking that ride.)
Of course, roleplaying isn't the only factor in my decision-making:
Game: Are you going to have Sean comply with the demands of these arseholes and sing, humiliating himself, or are you going to hold on to your pride and refuse?
Riona: Look, honestly I just want to hear Sean sing.
It was agonising.
(The Etch-a-Sketch-stealing, song-demanding racist guy was THE WORST. My new most hated character in the entire Life Is Strange series, I think. Sean screaming in the car afterwards broke my heart.)
Poor Sean. The kid can barely walk. Maybe he'd be able to move faster if I'd taken that ride.
I'm going to be really unhappy if I get an epilogue saying 'eventually, Sean died of skin cancer at the age of forty-three because you made him keep walking through the desert'.
I owe so much to whatever person at Dontnod went 'okay, we're catering specifically to Riona's fictional interests with this one; let's make a game that focuses on a teenager's relationship with his brother, and then let's physically and psychologically break that teenager as hard as we can.'
I've reached the church in episode four, but I haven't yet gone inside. Here are my notes so far!
Going crazy in here. Woke up crying. omg Sean
Claire and Stephen sent me a nice letter. So lonely I read it twice. omg SEAN
Two minutes into the new Life Is Strange 2 episode, and it's already fulfilling all my tortured teenager needs. Sean's in hospital, in police custody, separated from Daniel and having lost an eye, writing about how fucked-up and lonely he is.
He's heard from Chris and Cassidy and his grandparents, but not from Lyla? I imagine Lyla's storming down the country to kick in the door of his hospital room and yell 'YOU ASSHOLE'.
He made a note on Daniel's birthday, noooooo
And of course 'Did you find Daniel?' is the first thing he says when the agent comes in.
Joey: I can see that you're a good person.
Options: 'thank you'/'I'm not'
yesssss, the ability to make the protagonist intensely self-loathing is exactly what I want from every game.
His voice when he realises he knows where Daniel is! So broken, so hopeful! 'I can see him again!'
Sacred Hope Hospital is close enough to Sacred Heart Hospital to immediately make me think of Scrubs crossovers.
This 'escape the hospital' sequence is already way too stressful.
OH MY GOD, I HATE THIS DECISION, I DON'T WANT TO HIT JOEY AND IT'LL GET SEAN IN EVEN MORE TROUBLE, BUT JOEY WILL GET IN TROUBLE IF HE HELPS ME AND IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE I ESCAPED ON MY OWN
I chose to hit him. I don't feel great about that. I'm glad he's a nurse and could tell me where to hit him in order to, you know, not kill him.
That was a really nice scene between Sean and Finn! I wasn't expecting to get to interact with Finn in this episode at all! I felt pretty bad for telling the agent that Finn was behind the attempted heist, and I thought maybe if I woke him he'd alert security to get back at me for that, but instead he was very apologetic about the whole affair and I had the chance to tell him I didn't blame him.
There's at least a 120% chance that the car Sean stole to escape is going to turn out to be Joey's and I'm going to feel even worse.
I know that desert! We drove from California into Nevada when I was nineteen. Maybe it's not the same long straight California-to-Nevada desert road, but it feels the same. The sky was purple, there were mountains in the distance, and the most incredible rainstorm broke out, flooding the desert as we crossed. It's one of the moments from that holiday that most stuck with me.
Oh, hey, turns out the car actually isn't Joey's! Sean still feels bad for the owner, though.
I usually make decisions based on what I think will be best for my boys (or... my boy, now), but when the racist arsehole took Daniel's Etch-a-Sketch I lunged for it. I'm invested in Sean and Daniel's relationship, so of course I wanted him to react emotionally in that moment.
In fact, I generally seem to be roleplaying rather than aiming for the 'best' decision now. I thought the truck driver was probably safe, and it seemed like a terrible idea to keep walking through the desert, but Sean's been through so much, he's so wary and wounded, and it seemed to me like he'd probably turn the ride down, so I did. (If I'd been playing a female character, there is not the faintest chance I'd ever have considered taking that ride.)
Of course, roleplaying isn't the only factor in my decision-making:
Game: Are you going to have Sean comply with the demands of these arseholes and sing, humiliating himself, or are you going to hold on to your pride and refuse?
Riona: Look, honestly I just want to hear Sean sing.
It was agonising.
(The Etch-a-Sketch-stealing, song-demanding racist guy was THE WORST. My new most hated character in the entire Life Is Strange series, I think. Sean screaming in the car afterwards broke my heart.)
Poor Sean. The kid can barely walk. Maybe he'd be able to move faster if I'd taken that ride.
I'm going to be really unhappy if I get an epilogue saying 'eventually, Sean died of skin cancer at the age of forty-three because you made him keep walking through the desert'.
I owe so much to whatever person at Dontnod went 'okay, we're catering specifically to Riona's fictional interests with this one; let's make a game that focuses on a teenager's relationship with his brother, and then let's physically and psychologically break that teenager as hard as we can.'
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...Intrigued.
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